Van Houten v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

This was an indictment charging.the defendant with indecent exposure. The criminal act alleged was that the defendant, in urinating, intentionally exposed his nakedness in a public place. The transaction in question occurred in the yard of a house which was occupied in part by the defendant and in part by the prosecutors. The defendant himself, when on the stand as a witness, admitted that if he had done the act in the place designated by the *17prosecutors in their testimony, he would have exposed himself to the windows of two…